More than any other British writer of the second half of the nineteenth century, Andrew Lang successfully championed the fairy tale as appropriate reading material for children. This astonishingly productive man of letters influenced children's literatur...
For more than thirty-five years, from 1875 to 1912, Andrew Lang's essays, reviews, and editorial leaders shaped the opinions and influenced the tastes of the reading public of England and the United States. He was a prolific and facile writer who was alw...
Andrew Lang was "the greatest bookman of our age, and after [Robert Louis] Stevenson, the last great man of letters of the old Scottish tradition," affirms George Gordon in The Dictionary of National Biography. A confirmed polymath and gifted polyglot, i...
Out of the Shadows: New Translations of the Homeric Hymns Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica. Translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White, M.A. Harvard University Press 1982. 657 pp. Out of print. Works of Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns. Translated by Daryl Hine....
His seas are seldom calm - they boil and they roar. Sunsets rip his skies. The North Atlantic seascapes of the aging Winslow Homer must be among the grandest ever made by an American. "Winslow Homer in the 1890s: Prout's Neck Observed," the touring...
